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02/10/2006:

"Israel plans to build 'museum of tolerance' on Muslim graves"

Skeletons are being removed from the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem to make way for a $150m (£86m) "museum of tolerance" being built for the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

Palestinians have launched a legal battle to stop the work at what was the city's main Muslim cemetery. The work is to prepare for the construction of a museum which seeks the promotion of "unity and respect among Jews and between people of all faiths".
independent.co.uk


U.S. Jews block conference set to include anti-Israel professors
Pressure exerted by Jewish organizations in the United States has succeeded in preventing an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) conference, in which a number of supporters of an academic boycott on Israel were scheduled to take part.

The AAUP announced Thursday that it was indefinitely postponing the conference, which was scheduled to take place in Italy next week.

Some twenty professors were invited to take part in the conference, less than half of whom openly oppose an academic boycott of Israel.

yup. tolerance


Church of England Takes a Position Against Israel
(IsraelNN.com) The Church of England voted earlier this week to divest from all holdings which the Church deems support Israel’s presence in Yesha areas.

The resolution is to "heed the call from our sister church, the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, for morally responsible investment in the Palestinian occupied territories and, in particular, to disinvest from companies profiting from the illegal occupation, such as Caterpillar Inc., until they change their policies."
bulldozers like the one that crushed Rachel Corrie and doubtless many others